How do you get yourself to just finish something?

I know what I need to do to finish my PhD. I have some experiments working; I need to get one new technique up and running (but it has been done before in similar labs so it should work, in theory); I need to write a paper; I need to find a job; I need to write my dissertation and defend it. My "class" consists of three women and two men. The other two women will definitely finish by next spring and I REALLY want to. One of them told me that they are both going to push me so we three women can finish together. They both have field seasons, so I told her to give me deadlines of something to have finished by the time they get back.

But right now, the only thing I NEED to do is to make a darn poster of my research for a conference next weekend. I leave one week from tomorrow and gave myself a deadline of tomorrow night to email a draft to my advisor. She has not mentioned the poster at all to me, but then again she never really wanted me to go to this conference anyway. She did inquire about new data Thursday when I was busy trying to get data, but that is as far as her apparent interest in what I have been doing goes.

What have I done today? Went for a run, ran errands, went to lab for 4 hours, played lots of games on Facebook, found some old pictures of my sister's wedding from nine years ago. See, this is me with my hair all teased!I also need to "study" and look up all the scientists who will be at this meeting (two of my old bosses will be!). I know a lot of names because it is an area of research I worked in when I was a technician. I need to work on making my poster relevant to them because I am used to catering to a different crowd. Oiy.

I know I can do it. I just need to DO IT. K. Off to make tiramisu for a barbecue tomorrow.